Colloquium Schedule, Spring 2000 All talks will be held on Thursday, except where noted, at 4:30 P.M. in Room 58 Science Tower with refreshments at 4:10 P.M., Room 58 (Foyer) Science Tower. Febuary  2000 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Steve Gensemer UConn Characterization and Control of Ultracold Collisions 25 26 27 28 29 March  2000 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 Oliver Dewolfe MIT "What is String Theory" 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Rick Jensen, Wesleyan University "Exploring Functional Genomics using DNA Microarrays and Bioinformatics" 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Midsemester recess 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Midsemester recess 24 25 26 27 28 29 Joint Colloquium with E&ES, Environmental Studies Certificate Program David Keith Carnegie Mellon Univ. Department of Engineering & Public Policy "The Climate Problem and its Solutions" 30 31 April/ May  2000 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat             1 2 3 4 5 6 Professor Mark Goldman, Harvard University " Entropy, Redundancy, and Communication Between Neurons" 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Jian-Min Yuan Drexel University "Protein Folding and Mechanical Unfolding: An Off-Lattice Approach" 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Joint Astronomy-Physics Colloquium 4 P.M., refreshments at 3:45 Geoff Marcy U. Cal.- Berkley "Properties of Extrasolar Planets" 29 30 May 1 2 3 4 Bertman Lecture Professor Humphrey Maris Physics Department Brown University How Bubbles Form in Liquids: Beer, Swimming Pools and Liquid Helium Time: 5:00 p.m., Rm 58 Refreshments: 4:45 5 6     Please E-mail Vacek with additions or updates View previous Colloquia Schedules: Fall 2000   Fall, 1999 Spring, 2000 Fall, 1998 Spring, 1999 Fall, 1997, Spring, 1998 Fall, 1996, Spring, 1997 Fall, 1995, Spring, 1996 Fall, 1994, Spring, 1995